Take your iPad on the plane

The iPad which saw the light of the day this January is what Mac lovers have been waiting to get their hands.

Available at just below five hundred dollars for the basic model, this new genre of tablet PC, which is positioned between the iPhone and the Netbook, will offer all the great features of a smart phone on a larger screen with faster processors. This is thanks to Apple’s custom built low-powered A4 processor with an almost ten-hour power backup, which is being used in the iPad. The iPad is a little smaller than an A4 size sheet with its 9.7″ touch screen. It weighs about one and half pounds and sits flat like a magazine or a newspaper.

One very smart iPad app is the surprising iBooks. This is an application that is a direct take off on Kindle and the portal shelfari.com which was recently acquired by Amazon. The home page of iBooks which has a state of the art bookshelf-like interface takes on the main interface page of the shelfari.com which is the image of a shelf with books stacked on them. There is an Apple Store button on the home page which one has to navigate to find eBooks of choice, purchase them and download them onto the iPad. The iPad is equipped with the open format ePub and makes for easier accessibility.

The iBooks app allows one to work around the text one is reading. If you are not comfortable with the font you could change it to whichever font you are comfortable with. Using the iBook app you can quickly browse through the table of contents, the quickest way to reach a particular page or context you are interested in. What happens if you reach the most boring parts of the Harry Potter you are reading? You only need to click a button to flip over the pages. The iBooks app is really cool in the sense that it will liberate you from the traditional formats of reading an eBook. It makes the whole process of reading a book a very personalized experience because it helps you to read any material you are interested in according to your choice and in the way you want to.

So, to answer the question posed by the title of this piece, yes, it makes a lot of sense to take along the iPad on a long journey (we are talking favorite books, movies and games you can play for 10 hours straight!).

Should I take the iPad With Me on a Long Flight?

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